Morning all.
Tricky one today? I think so.
On paper it’s not but we’ve just had a nasty shock in the week – we got beat for the first time since the opening day of the season and now it’s about how the group recover and perform against a manager-less Crystal Palace away from home.
The positive side to this game is we haven’t lost at home so far this term and despite it being tricky, we need to get back to winning ways, stay positive and be well prepared for what is, a very hard month ahead.
Match Facts:
Head-to-head
- Crystal Palace have only won one of the eight Premier League meetings (D2, L5). Those two draws however did come in their last two home clashes with the Gunners (1997 and 2004).
- Arsenal won the last Premier League meeting 5-1 in February 2005. That game saw the Gunners field a 16-man squad with no British players for the first time.
- Palace have not beaten Arsenal at home, in any competition, since a 1-0 top-flight victory in November 1979.
Crystal Palace
- Palace and Sunderland have yet to keep a clean sheet in the league this season.
- The Eagles have lost their last five league matches. The last time they lost six league games in a row was March 2001.
- Despite their struggles, Palace have scored first in three of their eight league games this season.
- They have conceded more goals from set pieces this season (nine) than any other side in the Premier League.
- The Eagles have taken just 40 points from their 44 Premier League London derbies.
Arsenal
- The Gunners have scored three times as many league goals as Palace this season (18 versus 6).
- Arsenal have scored in their last 13 Premier League games – the longest current run in the league.
- Their midweek defeat against Borussia Dortmund ended a run of 12 unbeaten matches in all competitions (W10, D2)
- The Gunners have yet to keep a clean sheet on their travels in the league this season.
- Aaron Ramsey has scored more goals for Arsenal (9) in all competitions than the entire Crystal Palace squad combined (7).
- As well as scoring four Premier League goals, Olivier Giroud has a league-high four assists.
For a change, there are some interesting facts in there.
Us scoring three times as many goals as Palace so far is staggering and the fact that just one of our players, Aaron Ramsey, has already scored more than the entire Palace squad so far this season tells us all just how much todays home side have been struggling.
But that doesn’t mean that we can afford to be complacent, Palace will be out to change their luck and if our boys turn up thinking that’s all they have to do to get the maximum points, a shock could be on the cards.
And I hope Arsene Wenger isn’t tempted to rest/rotate players as doing that could bite him on the backside.
Mathieu Flamini should slot straight back into the starting eleven after suffering concussion last weekend but Jack Wilshere is a doubt and will face a late fitness test to determine whether he will be involved or not. If there is any doubt, I hope he sit’s this one out.
Regardless of whether Jack plays or not, regardless of the result on Tuesday, we really need to spank this Crystal Palace side and I mean spank them.
We are good away from home, we have a great set of travelling fas who will be right behind the team and today the players need to put in a great performance and get back to winning ways.
Three points, plenty of away goals and we’ll all be home happy…
COYG’s…..
Hi all, on the contrary Rico, today is a good day to rest players like Gibbs, Mert, Ozil bearing in mind our tough run. If we can’t win palace without those three we have no business trying for the title
We’ll have to agree to differ jeff 😉
Zedovski – wishing Jack Wilshere would break a leg will not get you on here. Idiot!!
Morning Rico, no need to rotate as we have the League Cup in midweek.
Good point Potter re: Chavs vs City. A win for City would be excellent for us, but I can’t see it. A draw though would be more that useful…
Let’s see if West Brom and Stoke can do us a favour?
Morning Kev, I have a feeling AW might be tempted to put out a stronger side to face Chelsea. Tough one though as it’s Liverpool next weekend isn’t it?
Off out early with the woofa so to be back before ko, so catch up in a bit..
good morning all residents,
waiting for the game anxiously. this is ours for the taking.
Hi rico
morning all!
We must look to ourselves and win the game today. I’m quite sure will be very difficult albeith Palace scored and performance last Monday
If our principal opponents (5 teams: MU,M City,Chelsea,Totts and Liverpool) drop points, whereever, will be good; for the moment, it will be earlier to say what will be our preferences.
Yeah, I do agree, Wenger isn’t going to hand Mourinho (or at least he shouldn’t) any early psychological advantage…
Liverpool promises to be every bit as important as Spuds, Napoli and Dortmund at home.
A real toughie…
From where is Boreham Wood FC? In what divison they play for?
Provided we win, I can enjoy the rest of the weekend’s football, especially Chelsea v City. Lose and I’m pisssed off and cant bear to watch. Am I so biased and silly?
And good weekend to everyone!
Kev, what do you think of Lipman’s loan so early on?
Hi Joy, long time…
Morning all…
Rico, you love stats, admit it? 😛
You see I learnt something from your post when it has stats…. 😉
The last time we faced CP in the EPL we had : Lehmann; Lauren Touré Cygan Cole; Ljungberg Vieira Fàbregas, and Pires today? Pirès; Henry Reyes; and it ended 1-1.
Who is going to be our Ljunberg
Is Flamini a card away from suspension?If so I will rest and save for the dippers…
Lipman to Borehamwood, Ginge?
It’s ok as long as it’s only up to January
On the way to Palace… COYFRRG
we are on a bit of a no win road today – we hit them for 4/5 and we’ve done no better than Fulham and we hit them for less and we have not played well – What should happen is there be no panics, no dangers and we should deal with them comfortably.
tsgh – i would get his card tonight to miss Chelsea cup game personally
How will AW manage his squad against Palace (A),Chelsea (H) (cc),Liverpool (H),Dortmund (A), United (A),Southampton (H),Olym. Marseille (H) and Cardiff (A) all in 35 or 36 days ?
Will he play the same 16 players and run them into the ground or will he be brave and altenate?
Why are Monreal, TV, Frimps, Ryo, Serge etc not getting 10 minutes here and there when the team is playing well? That is how Fergie won titles… he did not wait for his best CB pairing to be injured before he gave 3rd or 4th choice a game.
Oh yes, good point Oz. I didn’t realise the cup games applied…
Kev- yes Lipman loan. I thought he may stay and train with the seniors.
Hi Rico,
We seem to be in a replay of previous seasons when coming up against supposedly ‘easy’ opposition only to suffer great disappointment.
Added to that it often happens that a team with a temporary or new manager play out of their skins to impress the new guy.
All that said, I still think we will win handsomely!!
Arsenal team to play Crystal Palace: Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Arteta, Flamini, Ramsey, Ozil, Cazorla, Giroud
Fabianski, Monreal, Vermaelen, Wilshere, Rosicky, Gnabry, Bendtner
I still cant understand the team selection.
Morning all.
😀 Dna; I agree but I guess your are referring to Arteta starting?
Ozil, Giroud, Gibbs, Sagna, Ramsey and Per should be rested.
hope we have any player sent off and not a yellow card to Flamini
Come on Arsenal
Have a fab afternoon Kev.
Afternoon…
COYG’s…
We have Chelsea mid week so I think they will get a rest…
JM, we could do with Flamini getting a yellow, then he misses the CO cup match and the slate is wiped clean…
A tight 2 goal win for mid day kick-off… c’mon Gs
Ts, rest can’t be too much for a player like Ramsey, who cover the most ground in the PL on match day.
Not until the 90th minute of course 😉
These players are fit athletes, they can cope 😛
haven’t…
No, Palace will be very strong today. we must play with our best team of the moment. If we can solve the game quickly, we can make the changes later.
i’m at the Selhust Park now. Catch you later.
We have to stop Chamakh getting the ball 🙂
CP have been set up very well… hmm tough day ahead…
Dna, have you noticed that even with MF and MA08 playing in the pivot.. MA08 is the defensive amongst them?
Serge has moved to no.10 instead. hmmm
The old 1,10,0,0 formation from Palace today.
Good day all.
Flamini goes off and Palace step up. Strange that one….
Anything other than 3 points is a very bad day here.
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COYG!!!!!
Cheers Dutch. Better than the one I was on. Only bad thing is we have to listen to Michael Owen.
Poor so far.
Could do with a ten minute downpour of rain at half-time…
No one doing a Theo or Ljunberg thus far…
Hiya Lewis
With all the digital technology available you would think selective muting is the least they can offer on a button. Especially a scouser pundit. LOL
Owen lying through his teeth… lol
😀 Dg
Apologies, how rude me is.
Afternoon GoonerFamilia.
That viewing was painful!
Hi Dg, thanks re the links.
Hmmmm
Not very impressive.
Not too bad for a 12:45 kick-off.. based on our history after a CL fixture.
2nd half Serge and Ma08 goals will do…
SC19 needs to be a bit more disciplined on the lhs…
Chris Foy is our biggest threat. Giving them FKs every time they appeal and alowinv them to do what they like.
Ts, we are all over the place, to me MA08 is a liability at the moment.
It was not going to be easy… an interim/care taker manager and a London derby too.
We do not have an impeccable record against CP. Lets hang in there and the result will follow.
Even with Viera, Pires etc we struggled to beat them with tracksuit bottom wearing Gabor Kiraly.
very poor.
Gnaby not starting well.
we need more speed
Ramsey was a bad performance again
Please, shoot!
Dna, is MA08 your new Ramsey? Nothing he ever does impresses you…
Painful Television – we look like the idea-less teams of seasons past today – Lucky they have no finishers – we need to start moving the ball much quicker
Lets put things in perspective… I was never expecting us or any team for that matter to be 3-0 up against a manager-less club facing AFC with the likes of Owen and Talkshite radio pundits all praying we lose.
Even AW knew it would be difficult so he fielded his best available team…
We are not losing… lets hang in there and fingers crossed our quality will be the difference in the end…
Ts, this is not about favoritism, it’s about afc doing well. I’m just stating the obvious.
So is it his fault we have had less goals on target than CP?
2nd half nothing will stop us.
All business straight out of the gates. Packing punches in the bunches till the fat lady sings. whooohaaaaa.
afternoon all, im watching game link 1 through this link…same as dutch closing the ads…
its btsport
http://thefirstrow.biz/soccer/crystal-palace-v-arsenal-premier-league-frsa66gb
we have been poor. DNA Arteta is unfashionable but one of our better performers today.Ozil very offish
Get in there…
Well played serge.
Get in.
Crystal ball or what?
What did I say 10 minutes ago.. Ma08 and Serge… ha hah ah…
Some of us know what we are talking about…
Dna, be a soldier.. 🙂
Guys, if you have Sky Sports, BT Sport are showing this game for free – channel 413
Now we have had only 1 clean sheet all season… is MA08 going to take the blame for it?
Shame you don’t channel all you think you know into football coaching Ts. If you were as good as you think you are, you would have…
Can we keep a clean sheet?!
547 on Virgin… Rico. 😉
823 on Eurosat
Stop it Ts, you cannot keep taking digs at others for their opinion, not on here!
Much better though.
Personal attack? 🙂
It was a joke even but still…
Ts, u need to stop the favoritism.
No ‘digs’ just opinions and questions… anyway!
If you do not want me here all you have to do is say it….
I’d have put money on Giroud burying that…
It is Lewis, a bit more pace and urgency in the play… At last.
Should be two.
I will..
🙂 We all do Dna, I admit I love MA08…
I love Flamini too… in August who on here was in support of him…
I just believe in team work; and like to treat people how I expect to be treated…
MA08 has never been liked because he was never a ‘cesc’ but record/stats show that with him starting a game we win more even compared to Cesc…
good… at least I know
Ginge
This is called a forum/blog to share opinions even the ones that rub against favorable conventions. Please be the gent I know you are.
Ts, no hard feelings at the end of the day we are all gooners.
Back to the passive ‘think the games won’ football now
Calm down folks, it ain’t that serious we are winning.
That’s just my point Ts, who dislikes Arteta on here??
Some may believe he has had his better days, but that is their opinion, doesn’t mean Arteta is disliked. He’s an Arsenal player, I strongly suspect everyone only ever wants him to do well, just like they do all of the squad…
He’ll be off…
Oh dear…….
Liability
Fuck sake.
Why would you have one of your slowest players as cover anyway?!
Dg, I was not insulting anyone… I know and believed Dna knew I was joking…
And the crystall ball joke, well if someone thinks its a dig then its a shame because, when someone goes to the bookies and bets he is not deemed a soothsayer or prophet… its all done in good humour…
And be a soldier… just means just keep going/fighting on; it was never a dig
Anyway we are winning that is all that matters…
I actually coach a kids team and coach a girls under 14 team part team in Surrey… a girls private secondary school.
its all a bit of fun and a hobby.
Was that a red card…?Chris?
Foy having a mare.
TV should have come on…
Chamakh being made to look like a footballer by us today.
Red card??
No, I feel it wasn’t more than a clumsy tangle of flapping limbs in a body check. Besides there were miles to go on goal.
🙂 Lewis, is shisha smoking a profession?
Kebe, if in the mood, can be very good….
In such a crucial position as DM we can’t achieve much with MA08 playing there.
Of all the people BT could have chosen to commentate and critique, they choose Owen and macmanaman?!
Was it Palace who had a player sent off in a very similar situation – against Totts I think…
Scott will be pleased with that save…
They are awful Lewis, mind you, Macca thought we should have had a penalty before we got the one we did…
Ches is in great form
Amazing chezzer!
Come on lads. Put it in. We need three points here.
This is painful.
How did we not get a touch on that ball in…
come on…
It is a good job chamakh is shit otherwise we’d be in trouble today. We play Like this over the next month we won’t get many points.
Dear oh dear..
Come on OG12
Yessssssssssssssssssssssss
Game over!!
Palace legs are gone.
Great play Ramsey, great finish Giroud 😛
Phew.
They had on that break Dg 😛
Take a bow Rambo.
Lewis, we never start well when we kick off at 12:45… we only start playing after 14:00…
That was why I was positive after half time going in 0-0
The same yanited have a poor record playing on Monday night but win all their matches at 12:45 on saturdays…
I know I am sad… 😛
Hoof time from 90 min onward.
Ches man of the match on BT Sport, rightly so imho…
Haha TS.
Does he stop running? He should be a SAS soldier. 🙂
Agreed Rico. They say great keepers win you points, he has definitely done that today. Is he on his way to being great? I hope so.
Great result… but we need to play a lot better in November…
Excellent performance… imho of course.
If fergie had done this, the media cronies will say he is a top manager.
Have some faith guys and ladies…. we could have a good year.
I am glad this was an away game though 😉
Ginge
Agree. Early starters always seem to dim our concentration levels.
Good game from second half anyway. Kev will be stoked to have traveled.
Anyhow we get the points I’m happy. Well done lads..
well well well…3 hard earned points..
red card was a tad hard. we had some very good performers 2nd half.
mom for me was sagna. . actually all defence was very good and showed good concentration. Nice to see Ramsey and Ozil raise their game .
Rico
Chesser MoTM is a bottle of bubbles well deserved. Kept the advantage on the scoreboard by sheer class.
Hi George, hope you are well?
George, re red card, MF did the same against Swansea at 0-0 and he only got a yellow card… most said he took it for the team… in my opinion MA08 did well but, I am known to be biased so… lol
off for a few minutes
Now bring on the dippers and slaughter them in front of our faithful fans…
A clean sheet too…
Straight red so Arteta and MF can feature against the dippers because of the mid week game.
Same here Gdna, especially away from home against a club who have no manager, they can be a pain.
I thought so too George, but we all know Foy won’t waste an opportunity…
Cg, his two saves at 1-0 were simply stunning, hats off to him, very well deserved award.
We look better playing with 10. Lol
Not if Flamini plays and gets booked against Chelsea..
Spooky Gdna, I thought the same 😉
Rico, it’s all about points for me, I don’t care about who scores or playing style.
JW came on a do a good job in the centre of the park. That was a good sub by AW.
I reckon AW might appeal that red card, the replay shows Chamakh shoved Arteta first…
True Rico, that is if the groan injury was very minor…
Points win prizes Gdna, 80% possession, 99% tackles made etc etc but no goals don’t.
I care only about winning too, that’s the name of the game in sport..
I’d rather we played attractive football too but on days like today, I don’t give a toot…
Afc is leading the points table Rico, I doubt they will overturn the decision, knowing their love for arsenal. Lets go Stoke.
I hope it is Ts, but they seldom are when it comes to our players. Thank goodness he didn’t hang around and try to play on..
Fair point Gdna.
Hi Ginge, well, having a tough time …been rough since april, but hey ho. we are playing some resilient stuff. At this rate TV05 can’t get a sniff of any playing time!
Rico, Chris Foy hates us..
funny how Chamakh , as Lewis rightly mentioned earlier looks like a footballer all of a sudden. ?!?!?wtf?
I doubt we’ll see Flamster feature against Chelski.
We will probably see the likes of Eisfeld and Olsson on tuesday
Anyone know what happed to Nico Yennaris? He seems to have fallen off the radar
Palace don’t deserve to be where they are….
Rico, attractive football is secondary for me this season, if we got to defend 1 nil for 15-20 mins to win a game, I’m fine with that. The only stats that matters in may is who finish 1st.
GDNA , good point @2.53 mature display by jack the lad-Smokin!
I liked Owen’s comment about Chamakh George – he said he is good in the air, but not sure what he’s like with his feet… 😉
West Brom, stoke and Villa, lets go.
I’m agreeing Gdna, maximum points is all the table tells in May… 😉
Pundits still writing us off, good, I like it that way..
Stoke
Crouch has scored 🙂
rico, i choked on my coffee when owen said that. …it was good kos put him in his place after the sending off
Him and BFG had shisha well under wraps;)
George, Nico just got back from injury… with Arteta and possibly MF out mid week we may see Frimpong and Nico/Hayden pairing against the chavs.
Or possibly the first ever Frimpong and JW pairing competitive since the FA youth cup.
get in Crouchie…Do it for the lovely Abbey Clancey!
glad thats over – forget Chelsea, rest as many as possible, Liverpool is the next one and we’ll need to step up. Wonder why so many look so knackered already?
Old Trafford is who’s home ground????
competitively*
I agree Oz. The seniors always let us down in the Coc anyways… give the kids a chance and you never know…
George you want Abbey clancey too? is you pocket deep enough? lol
Dippers 1-0 up. Suarez
🙂 George…
Abbey will be busy dancing 🙂
On the train to Clapham Junction.
A hard won 3 points.
Scrappy, but last season, in a game like this, we would have dropped points.
Not a great performance, but with 10 men and a suspect referee it was a great result.
Szczesny made some crucial saves.
Monreal made a difference when he came on.
Very impressed with Ozil, he ain’t no showponey…
BFG is my man. Mr Dependable.
chezzer MOM v’s Palace hey? What were the odds on that happening
Giroud: 9 goals in 14 games this season
Ramsey leading assist table…
Suarez again. 2-0
if only hey Rico
A few Peroni’s later Kev?? 😉
Steve Clarke is a clown, two strikers at Anfield, and defend against afc at home.
Chavs play tomorrow against Man City, and then Tuesday against Arsenal…
That’ll be some interesting rotation for the Supercilious One…
Peroni would be nice Rico, but it’ll be Merlot… 😉
Gotta behave myself… 😀
Pierre – Aub scored for bvb against SC04
Where’s Adam today???
Thought Gnabry had a much better 2nd half, well until he was substituted…
To me, Arteta’s foul was a yellow card.
Well it looked that way from where I was standing..
Indeed Oz, indeed….
No idea Kev, Adam hasn’t been on HH for a few days…
Chamakh shoved Arteta first – surprised we didn’t get the free kick, mind you, that was after seeing the replay..
Stoke are all over the Mancs..
BM are drawing 1-1…
Chris Foy, isn’t he a Scouser?
Kev, how was your day south of the river? A very resilient performance imho…
only one game for Arteta, wonder if Wenger will bother appealing?
It was ok thanks Ginge…
Darn – 1-1 at OT
Depends if he planned to play him against Chelsea Oz…
2-1 Stoke 🙂
id have abbey all day rico, ginge et al
off to work a 15 hr shift..see you all tommorow
Take it easy George…
Christian Benteke is having a mere against Everton. Not afc quality.
Go steady George..
Just an off day maybe Gdna…
I hope Suarez gets a little injury before our match next weekend…
3-0 dippers
best striker in this league by some margin Rico
Back from the pub, hard work watching after the S/O especially with Palace fans shouting at the bar, but we came good. Then I find, there was a feed on here!!! Take it, ignore the Flash HD needed prompts?
Come on Stoke. Hate you, but just today, nick a draw.
I hope theo make the bench for Tuesday.
Easily Oz, if we can’t get him, I really hope Real do, get the player out of the PL…
Nick a draw AH, they are winning 😛
Don’t think he will Oz, not after his setback…
Bugger, Utd have made it 3-2…
Off now for the day, need to write the game up and enjoy my Saturday night…
Catch you all tomorrow…..
Night all.
And don’t forget the clocks go back in the UK tonight 🙂
Gone now…
Hiya AndrewH
We always provide live stream feeds as complementary service from Highbury House.
Live stream links will be posted at least half an hour before kick off, so you can warm up to the match and catch some preview stats.
Cheers.
Night Rico. Enjoy your ‘strictly footy’. LOL
Thanks DG10, will check out in future. Night
Well well, Flamini ruled out for 3 weeks. 🙁
I guess it is going to be a midfield 3 of Wilshere, Frimps and La Mozart against chelsea.
Ginge
I wonder if the 3 weeks mentioned is just precautionary judgement from the medical team.
If they press release 1,5 week you can imagine journos ‘vulturing’ above the subject every opportunity.
Missed La Liga El Classico, heared Sanchez hammered a screamer and gel boy was denied a stonewall penalty.
Dg, our medical team’s prognosis is just a wild guess at best… lol
You mean educated guess Ginge. LOL
Off for 2night. C U 2morrow mate.
BTW didn’t mean to accuse you of insults or snide remarks. Just felt it was an over the top reaction asking Rico to expel you from HH if she didn’t want you around. .From a valued member such as yourself I expect more composure in context. That’s all. Cheers.
You are right Dg… cheers
stay safe.
That may be why perez does not sell to AFC as he wants AW there…
Ancelotti copied Mourinho & put Pepe in midfield ahead of £32m midfielder Illarremendi.
Another great weekend for AFC, top of the league, what more can we ask for ?
tsgh, pull yourself together or I might have to start calling you Twisted Sister.
rico, you have the patience of a Saint.
Morning all.
I am back home after a weekend of Arsenal!!
We had the Arsenal Australia conference over the weekend, with people flying in from interstate to take part.
It was brilliant having one day and two nights…..and i mean LOOOOONG nights….where the topic of every conversation was Arsenal.
I am trashed, absolutely buggered, but had a great time.
Where is everyone??
Clocks went back overnight here in the uk Scott, it’s still early 😉
No excuse 🙂
Morning Rico.
Morning Scott …
Solid result last night.
Poor first half, but as we keep saying, playing poorly and winning is the sign of a top side.
New post is going up now
Exactly Scott, the Mancs have been doing that for years..